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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8243236" data-attributes="member: 29398">Glad to know I was able to contribute to the chaos. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I disagree.&nbsp; The characters should be somewhat paranoid, thus giving the players a taste of that only makes sense.Further: if everything really is against you then victories, when they come, are that much more special.Great example for me personally, as I do just this and have done for decades.My question, though, is one of intent: do you do those things - increase vocabulary, write down conversation snippets, etc. - with the specific thought in mind of &quot;Ooh, yes, this will improve my poetic skills&quot;?Or do you do it with the thought in mind of &quot;Cool line, I'm going to use that sometime!&quot; without regard as to skill improvement?Me, I'm the latter.&nbsp; I'm not and never really have been specifically trying to improve my skill.&nbsp; Instead I just keep banging them out and let any improvement come naturally through experience.&nbsp; And over time, I dare say, it has.Intentioally putting effort specifically into skill improvement, above and beyond just doing it, is IMO taking it more seriously than just a hobby.&nbsp; Nothing wrong with that, but it's gone beyond casual hobby and into something else that maybe doesn't have a good term - unpaid work is the closest I can get, but that's not right either.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 8243236, member: 29398"] Glad to know I was able to contribute to the chaos. :) I disagree. The characters should be somewhat paranoid, thus giving the players a taste of that only makes sense. Further: if everything really is against you then victories, when they come, are that much more special. Great example for me personally, as I do just this and have done for decades. My question, though, is one of intent: do you do those things - increase vocabulary, write down conversation snippets, etc. - with the [I]specific thought in mind[/I] of "Ooh, yes, this will improve my poetic skills"? Or do you do it with the thought in mind of "Cool line, I'm going to use that sometime!" without regard as to skill improvement? Me, I'm the latter. I'm not and never really have been specifically [I]trying[/I] to improve my skill. Instead I just keep banging them out and let any improvement come naturally through experience. And over time, I dare say, it has. Intentioally putting effort specifically into skill improvement, above and beyond just doing it, is IMO taking it more seriously than just a hobby. Nothing wrong with that, but it's gone beyond casual hobby and into something else that maybe doesn't have a good term - unpaid work is the closest I can get, but that's not right either. [/QUOTE]

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